Teams at Western Digital

Develops global commodity and sourcing strategies, leads supplier selection and negotiations, manages supplier performance and risk, and delivers cost savings. Partners with Engineering, Operations, and R&D on supplier innovation and design-to-cost initiatives. The role requires strategic sourcing, category management, contracting, cost modeling, supplier relationship management, analytics, and cross-functional leadership.

Leads complex HR programs across APAC, including talent, employee experience, workforce transformation, HR technology, compliance, and operational excellence initiatives. Manages end-to-end delivery, regional stakeholder partnerships, global program localization, change management, governance, risk, resources, timelines, and executive reporting. Requires strong cross-cultural communication, project leadership, and familiarity with regional employment practices and regulations.

Own the architecture, deployment, and technical direction of physics-informed machine learning systems for precision product development. Responsibilities include deep learning for inspection and defect detection, anomaly detection, surrogate modeling, active learning, Bayesian experimental design, and full MLOps platform ownership. The role leads design and code reviews, mentors engineers, integrates laboratory and product-development data, and deploys production ML systems using PyTorch, MLflow, Docker, AWS EKS, Kubernetes, and observability tools.